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title: The Shifty Lad slung the money bags round his shoulders and took the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Shifty Lad slung the money bags round his shoulders and took the bread and the cheese under his arm, then set out quietly for the Black Rogue’s house. Who acts: Shifty Lad. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 11

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The Shifty Lad slung the money bags round his shoulders and took the bread and the cheese under his arm, then set out quietly for the Black Rogue’s house.

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**Who acts:** Shifty Lad · **What happens:** sling, take, set out · **To what, where:** money bags, bread, arm

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shifty Lad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:2:11
# text = The Shifty Lad slung the money bags round his shoulders and took the bread and the cheese under his arm, then set out quietly for the Black Rogue’s house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sling** | past | the Shifty Lad | the money bags |  |  |  | round Lad's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the Shifty Lad *not said here* | the bread and the cheese |  | Lad's arm |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | infinitive | the Shifty Lad *not said here* |  |  |  | then | for the Black Rogue's house; quietly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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